.net Regular Expression book recommendation?

[RebLazer]

Would someone please recommend the best in depth book on RegEx's in VB.net with lots of examples?

Thanks!
Lazer

 

[RebLazer]

Let me rephrase my question so it makes a little sense...

Could someone please recommend a good in-depth book (containing lots of examples) on RegEx's in VB.net?

Thanks!
Lazer

 

[JohnnyLong]

Hi Lazer,

Can't recommend a book but have you tried Expresso, a RegEx Builder. Find it at

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Expresso.asp?print=true

Good Luck,

John

 

[RebLazer]

Thanks, LongJohn!

Anyone else know of any books?

Thanks!
Lazer

 

[chuckdiesel]

I own a book called Mastering Regular Expressions from O'Reilly publishing and written by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

I haven't dwelved much into the book so I can't give a good review (although it seems to be a very throuough coverage of regular expressions.)

Check out the reviews on amazon.com for this book...I think they are good.

 

[RebLazer]

How about anything specific for VB.net?

 

[Craig0201]

Regex are not specific to VB.Net. Hence almost all books on regex are generic.

If you are referring to using the regex part of the framework, the examples in help are plenty once you have the hang of regex themselves.

Craig

 

[RebLazer]

Craig,

Are there really no differences between VB's syntax and other languages' implementation of regular expressions?

Thanks,
Lazer

 

[Craig0201]

To the best of my knowledge, no. A regex is a regex is a regex.

Craig

 

[chuckdiesel]

The book I mentioned does have a section on regex use in .NET as well as a section on regex use in Java and a section on regex use in Perl.

I think the only real diff between the laguages is how the regex is created...the regex itself should be identical.

 

[RebLazer]

Thanks very much, folks!


Lazer